Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-02-03

France wants Germany to start fght.
Rassia is daring Austria to knock a
chip off her shoulders.
The President has not yet signed the
Interstate commerce bill.
Congressman Hill says he win pass the
Dakota division bill this week.
The House committee recommends
statehood for Montana.
Another big riot at Belfast, Ireland
Coercion don't seem to coerce.
The boundary line between Uncle Sam
and Mexico Is 10 be surveyed soon.
The bears now have It all their own
way in the market
A blizzard at Bismark last week stop
ped legislative proceedings.
Coal has been struck at depth Of 80
feet In Minor county, Dakota.
Cardinals Gibbons and Taschereau
have gone 10 Rome.
Grand Rapids, Dakota has an anti
slang society.
North Dakota viii organize base bali
league this year.
Seven to eight feet of snow is reported
in the Black Hills.
Some men are horn great aud grow
smaller every cay Of their lives.
Greece is busy with preparations for
war. All the arsenals are working night
and day.
| Gen. Boulanger says notone man horse
OF gun has been moved to the frontier u
France,
| II is estimated that the Austrian land
strnm viii supply q million additional
men to the army.
j dispatch from ST. Petersburg saws
the Gar and Czarena will take trip
through Europe next summer.
Senator Farweli's FIRST vote in the Uni
ted states Senate was IN favor of woman
suffrage.
The bill to tax telegraph companies in
Dakota, Is similar to the one defeated
two years ago.
The usual special legislation is before
our legislature under The guise Of gener-
al laws.
ii A halky horse and man "who knows
II all' ere the best means of teaching us
the value Of patience.
J The season win soon be here when the
: weak youig man at the pic mic puts on a
J girls hat aud tries to be funny.
Last Friday. as John Burke was dig
ging well upon his farm, north of Brid-
; gewaier, he struck bed of mica.
. II is reported that Virgins learned TO
be prophet by guessing what his wife
would say when no came home late at
night.
After mature consideration it has been
! decided that the uses Of adversely. how
ever sweet, are as nothing compared with
, advertising
The British foreign Office denies the
statement that it has official knowledge
that the relations between France aud
Germany point to war.
A dispatch from 81. Petersburgh states
that the Gar has forwarded a message to
Emperor Francis Joseph assuring him of
his pacific intentions.
Sixteen members OF the legislative
council are pronounced divisionists and
large majority of the house sympathize
with the sixteen.
A bill has been introduced in the legis
lature providing for vote on the subject
Of division aud constitutional conven-
ton for North Dakota.
The sth United States Cavalry, now in
Texas, will exchange places with the 0tl,
now in Dakuta-rhe sth has been in Tex
rs for years.
In North Dskotaihe snow is regarded
as rich blessing. as il is supposed to in
sure a large amount OF water when the
spring time comes.
Fremont and North Bend. Nebraska,
about hundred miles from Yankton.
experienced an earthquake shock at s
O'Clock Thursday evening.
The new French explosive. melenite.
which is said to be more powerful than
dynamite or nitro.gycerine, in touch aud
appearance, resembles yellow clay.
II A wonderful gold mine has been dis
covered IN Sonora, Mexico--the miners
get pure metal 10y breaking the quartz
with hammers.
Nebraska is now enjoying an epidemic
of Republican ROSTERS growing over Il e
election Of Paddock to the United States
Senate.
The reports now from the winter wheal
bel, are TO the effect that the prospect is
greatly improved which enables the
bears 10 jam down the wheat market,
herd If fourteen antelope were re.
Gently seen near Jamestown. aud a sl,ar,
time ago bunch Of forty were repofte,l
fetrlessly roamsng through La Moury
county.
A Woonsocket iirn shipped 500 worth
OF poultry to st. Paul commission house
and when the returns were made. III.
woonsocket firm owed the commission
house 81.
A lillintrodueed into tie Dakota house
relative TO interest on moaey continues
the legal rate of seven per cent and re-
ddces the contract cate from twelve TO
TO ten per cent.
Inquiries about the Dakota have been
received at the office of the cammissicA.
er Of immigration, from every state in
the union There is prospect of TIE
biggest immigration in 1857 ever known
in the territory.
There are four bills before the Dakota
legislature in behalf Of the ex-soldiers OF
the union army. One relieves them
from the payment Of poll tax, another
provides for soldiers home and two
make provisions for the burial Of indi-
gent soldier.
Monday the cath, the senate, By vote
Of forty-six to one, passed the bill to au-
thorize the President of the United
States to protect and defend the rights
of American fishing vessels, American